There's always peripheral things that you like that you don't know, but starting with whatever his British influences are, are some of my favourite artists, and the American things are what I grew up on as well. In the end, for me, it's those foundations of the music business - those things that are a lot of the foundations of what music today is. You can hear a bit of all of those things that we talk about in almost all music today.

There are so many artists who get to my age that get comfortable and just stick in a groove, and I really don't want to do that.

A lot of young artists and musicians that we work with, you think they're gonna want to come in and buy the rock star-looking leather jacket - whatever it is that you think they're gonna want. They all want a suit. They want a tuxedo jacket, they want a suit. They don't want to look like their dad in it, but they want a suit.

I've not had Botox, no.

It can get boring. Not the playing the songs necessarily, or doing the clothes. You know, you need stimulus.

I wanted to make a record that sounded like a continous piece

There's this British elegance that we, at times, have really missed in the States. We've always been more of a sportswear culture.